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Tight Shot: A Hollywood Mystery
Twenty-nine-year-old Kieran O'Connor's life is messier than his studio apartment in Venice. He's being evicted. He prefers hanging out at his ex-girlfriend Claudia's coffeehouse to traveling in the Hollywood fast lane. Claudia's currently seeing a hot young female director ("I was less annoyed she'd left me than I was that she'd taken up with someone in the industry"). So when Kieran finds Hollywood's newest player, producer Monica Slezak, shot to death in the bathroom at a glittery industry banquet, he sees his chance to get off the entertainment beat and into hard news, especially since he's the first one to get a look at the suicide note.
262 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1995
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August 4, 2013
Kieran O'Connor likes to think of himself as a journalist, but the truth of the matter is that his specialty is events coverage of the entertainment industry and he's barely scraping by. Movie premieres, concerts, boring awards dinners; that's his beat. He'd much prefer to do hard news; and accidentally, he's able to do that. As he attends yet another awards dinner, the wife of one of the award's winners commits suicide in the women's bathroom. Coincidentally, Kieran is in the men's bathroom and hears the shot. He's the first on the scene, but the reporting goes to someone else. What nobody knows is that he took the suicide note and faxed it to himself before the death was made public.
Kieran, in the name of journalism, interviews everyone associated with Monica Slezak to see what could have caused her to take her own life. At first glance, it appears that she might be despondent over not having been nominated for an Academy Award. Or that she was devastated because another film which she was intending to produce and which was close to her heart was put into inactive status. Kieran uncovers lots of surprises and ultimately unveils Monica's killer. Ironically, he is part of the story so he cannot report it.
A side story spotlights Kieran's personal life and his relationship with his bi-sexual lover, Claudia. Both wary of commitment, they work themselves through separation and union.
Tight Shotis Allman's first novel. I was a bit dissatisfied with the lack of revelation around the killer, but all in all, he does a fine job.
Kieran, in the name of journalism, interviews everyone associated with Monica Slezak to see what could have caused her to take her own life. At first glance, it appears that she might be despondent over not having been nominated for an Academy Award. Or that she was devastated because another film which she was intending to produce and which was close to her heart was put into inactive status. Kieran uncovers lots of surprises and ultimately unveils Monica's killer. Ironically, he is part of the story so he cannot report it.
A side story spotlights Kieran's personal life and his relationship with his bi-sexual lover, Claudia. Both wary of commitment, they work themselves through separation and union.
Tight Shotis Allman's first novel. I was a bit dissatisfied with the lack of revelation around the killer, but all in all, he does a fine job.
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